exactly but photography is so much more than blindly following sharp focus some follow that end missing the shot because they didn’t view it as perfect focus

i don’t enter comps that have the same staid judges every time ( you get to know what individuals want to see and you blindly follow what they want )

comps i enter are judged by the previous weeks winner

as far as equipment goes there is a lot of bull**** sold by companies selling you gear i have won and been placed using a second hand 3mp fuji s3000 baught on ebay for 25 quid ( not a brilliant camera ) but used in the right conditions with a realy nice 100 ISO setting it could give superb results and beat off many 1000’s of quidsworth dslr owners

i go to my anual photographic clubs exhibition and many exhibit year after year slightly difrent shots from the same shoot , this doesn’t tell me they are a good consistent all round photographer it tells me they knew one subject in one type of lighting and had one good afternoons shooting

irony sees these hopeless togs winning club events as no doubt they are fantastic shots but they have learned very little but how to do one subject in one light on one setting !!

and that is the difrence it is laughed by most of these guys using step ladders good photography practice is exploring all options it may only be a little difrence but that marginal difrence can make a difrence

for instance i waas stood in a multi story building when discussing this subject originaly and was experimenting with views of objects and it is suprising how small a movement can give totaly differing views over distance

there was a church obscured by a closer building but a move sideways revealed it movement ( less than 2 ft )

what a lot forget as well is just because it is at hieght doesn’t mean it will be one type of view they may also experiment against slightly difrent cloud formation and slightly differing exposures

i look at a lot of the aircraft shots on here ( most are fantastic quality ) but few are what i class as good photographicly !! why ?? because most cater to only one group aviation fanatics so most follow being superb reccord shots with very little photographic art !!

but as said they are terrific work towards thier purpose

i think personaly i have only seen one shot that filled both areas brilliantly and that was a small in the frame mono looking spitfire take off shot with superb tones and a superb surrounding landscape and perfect lighting as happens it had great focus too but in all fairness on that image that was a small considderation as everything else was leaps and bounds above most others !!

T64, What were the min and max F stops on your 300mm lense?.
I dug out an old Canon 300mm EF lense, and at the max range, hand held, you could see distortion at the edges.Certainly not as good as the I.S. Lense I have.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

tamron 70-300 f4 f5.6 also goes down to f32 , distortion has never been an issue for me certainly never been an issue when it has beaten more expensive gear in competition

Bruggen 130 No way was that taken at the top end of a 300mm hand held lense. I would lay a bet on that, there would, and this is only my opinion, quite a bit of distortion due to camera shake.

Don’t they do a lot of canoeing in Wales?. I am sure one of our members who lives in Wales could tell us,what they think re the photo, and the given settings as explained, but then we would possibly end up in the photography side, of the Forum.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

i’m happy knowing i did what i did and others struggle 1000’s of quid on equipment will never beat thousands of hours holding a camera and practicing breatholding etc to get results if your budget didn’t streatch to film and materials as a kid but i found many hours practicing holding and moving without film in paid dividends !!

It’s this one that has me stumped, how do you get that face pin sharp at that speed and focal length, is the canoe cemented to the river bed:diablo:

easy as !! subject observation !! when paddling upstream a cannoeist often stays stationary in the water (particularly in the head and torso area ) and often when actualy moving it is very lazy movement the settings stated were all that i wanted to use for a weekly contest brief ( movement ) i had no tripod as i was out mountain biking at the time so the camera was in a belt pack .. the shot took joint third ironicly i was told i would have taken first with another shot i wasn’t happy with but it had a little more blurr but more river (some you win !!)

Lense?

Even with IS 1/20th is pushing it and you’d be better off upping your iso to get a faster shutter speed or supporting the camera on a tripod or convenient object. T64 seems to have picked up a few buzz words without really understanding this photography malarky.

i grew up with a police photographer brother in law from 1971 and spent a fair percentage of my childhood around a friends studio messing with medium format i also worked freelance at another friends studio doing portraiture and colour D&P as well as hanging around comercial labs as a teenager i was also a member of my local camera club, as a kid i started on zenits with my own black and white darkroom then progressed onto full olympus OM systems cameras with my own colour darkroom ( my first 500mm lens was owned by 16yrs of age ) then i progressed onto nikon f’s before going digital

i obviously learned nothing !!

Sorry for the quote, Deano, but it’d be confusing if I didn’t quote this post when I ask T64 the next question…..

When did you last go to Specsavers?

There’s lots of motion blur on this photo and if you’ve convinced yourself that you can hand-hold at 1/20th without support on the basis of this photo then you need an expert opinion on your eyesight.

maybe so but it took first place in a national photography magazines weekly competition for following a brief of “curves ” with a stunning image taken within that week and taken on a nikon D40 competing against togs with 1000’s of quidsworth of dslr

do for me !!

it’s a stunner and you know it !!

My Gob, is well and truly smacked 😮 Today, I went up town to try and get an Olympic Games flag to fly, as the footie has now ended, I thought I would support Team G.B. and replace my England flag.

My local Bakery had one, in their window, when it was visited by Trading Standards, and told they had to take it down, as they had not compiled with the rules. It would appear, you have to have so much space in the shop, (It was in the window) fill in God knows how many forms and apply for permission, or face a hefty fine, or even Prison.
It appears, that the organisers have a monopoly on the sales of these flage, and can only purchase them from these organisers.
They are also having a crack down on ebay sellers who are selling them on ebay.There is not a single Olympic flag flying in my area.
All the showing of the torch throughout the Country, and they expect the General Public to support the games. Yeh, right.:p well, I am still going to try and get one, Once a rebel, always a rebel,(Victor Meldrew, 2012).

Jim.

Lincoln .7

whilst agreeing in sentiment , why shouldn’t they ??? why should they put up with one man and his dog using counterfiet goods over ebay et all when it is them that have to recoup monies spent on the games from an official logo product

it is a hard battle against counterfeit goods and they have to safeguard thier vast investment

The money doesn’t disappear.

Unless it was spent with foreign contractors it will have provided business for UK suppliers, jobs, income.

All of which are taxed, so a large proportion of it comes back to the treasury.

The faster money circulates the better.

I am not even remotely interested in the Games. But they cannot be a bad thing for the economy long-term.

Moggy

101% unemployment would have been a lot worse without it as it not only covers construction jobs but also all the spin off unseen jobs builders spending in cafes , drivers delivering goods , companies making those goods , printers , tailors for suits uniforms etc ,public transport etc etc not only that but we have to considder how many will attend then whilst here will go on to other destinations in the uk spending whilst here !!

people only ever seem to factor in what is spent and got back on site and rarely factor the almost double sattelite spin off employment that can even if only small can mean the difrence between a company staying open or closing !!